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BIG ERN said:
knapplc said:
BIG ERN said:
Mars is approx. 12.5 light MINUTES away. It would take around 6 months to reach Mars with a manned aircraft. These 'new planets' are 40 light YEARS away. It would take around 800,000 years to reach these places by a manned aircraft....Don't you think we should quit with the nonsense fantasy and $20B/year spending for NASA?
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100 years ago powered flight was a fantasy. Today air travel is so common EVERYONE does it. It used to take a year to sail around the world. Today you could legit circumnavigate the globe in two days - maybe one with good connection flights.

Do you really think we won't have technological breakthroughs that drastically cut travel time from here to other stars in the next century? How will that happen if we don't strive to advance technology?
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To think of the sustainable water needed, vasts amounts of rich soil, perfect atmosphere in regards to chemical composition, shields of radiation, perfect gravitational pull, plate tectonics, constant weather that is able to be livable by all forms of life there is no chance there is a civilization that is in any way similar to ours. Fermi Paradox
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Technically we don't need all that to survive on another planet/moon. There are ways to get around weather, tectonics, radiation, and even the atmosphere.
Out of curiosity do you believe in global warming?

 
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First time event since way back in July 7th 1442 !! (Lincoln path). Before Christopher Columbus era. After August 21st, the next event in Lincoln will be May 26th 2245 .... hopefully a couple of CCG Husker winners
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And speaking of Lincoln, this second capital city in the path lies near its northern edge, so totality is shorter there - only 1m 25.5s (at 1:02pm) on the grounds of the beautiful State Capitol. The 50-yard-line at Husker stadium gets five seconds less time in the shadow, so you can see how important it is to get as far south as you can!
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Expected to draw big crowds from Australia to Russia ....... “I think we’ll sell out all the hotels in Nebraska region’’
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The best was Alliance, Grand Island, Beatrice and Fall City .... bulls-eye. Almost 3 minutes duration (totality). Lincoln: one and half minutes.

Anyway, I know temperatures will be lower that day in the eclipse. And birds and animals begin to stir.

BTW, Total and annular eclipse are different. Annular=halo sun. The last in Lincoln was October 19 1865.

Total means completely darkness, sun is fully obscured by the Moon, equal to new moon at night. Total eclipse occurred when the moon is minimum distance from Earth (perigee orbit)

 
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Uh, This Flat Earther's Homemade Manned Rocket Launch Does Not Sound Totally Advisable




61-year-old DIY enthusiast and stuntman “Mad” Mike Hughes is planning his first manned launch of a homemade, $20,000 steam-powered rocket with “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” written on the side on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.

According to the AP, Hughes says he expects his new rocket to hurl him through the skies above the Mojave Desert ghost town of Amboy at up to 500 miles per hour for roughly one mile, attaining a peak altitude of 1,800 feet before it deploys two parachutes. Hughes is a proponent of the Flat Earth theory; the Research Flat Earth group is his main sponsor. Hughes does not “believe in science,” which he told the AP has “no difference” from science fiction.
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